Emory University in Atlanta is under siege at this hour from a chalk-wielding Donald Trump supporter who caused a massive outbreak of micro-aggressions among frightened students.Terrified collegians are hunkered down in their safe spaces – traumatized by whoever wrote “Trump 2016” and “Accept the Inevitable: Trump 2016” on campus sidewalks.
That was a bit alarming,” one panicked student told The Emory Wheel. “What exactly is inevitable? Why does it have to be accepted?”
“I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe [here],” she told the campus paper. “But if this racist man is being supported by students on our campus…I feel afraid for my life at my school now.”
The Emory Latino Student Organization posted on their Facebook site calling the drawing “a racist act of cowardice.”
“They did not do this merely to support the presidential candidate, but to promote the hate and discrimination against people of color and Hispanics that goes along with him,” they wrote.
Dozens of students protested the chalk drawings in the university’s quad – demanding the administration take criminal and civil action against the pro-Trump supporter(s).
“You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain,” students shouted as reported by the campus newspaper. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.””
“I will dismiss their expression of feelings and concern as motivated only by political preference or over-sensitivity,” he wrote in an email to students. “Instead, the students with whom I spoke heard a message, not about political process or candidate choice, but instead about values regarding racial hatred and lack of respect for non citizens that clash with Emory’s own values.”
President Wagner vowed to launch a campus police investigation and round up the pro-Trump graffiti artists, the newspaper reported. He said if the individuals are students they will go through a violation process and if they are not students they will face charges.
Meanwhile, the university’s student government association is providing “emergency counseling for students triggered by the Trump 2016 campus chalkings.” The student newspaper also took a few jabs at Mr. Trump – calling him “an offensive man” who has made “racist, sexist and xenophobic statements.”
Ironically, there was no outrage from liberal students or the university administration or the campus newspaper in 2014 when protesters drew chalk outlines of bodies during a Black Lives Matter demonstration. I reckon at Emory University black lives do matter, but the lives of Trump supporters do not..But a source at the Centers for Disease Control tells me there are grave concerns that what happened at Emory University is not an anomaly. And they fear that if the Republicans nominate Donald Trump – it could spawn an epidemic of micro-aggressions on university campuses across the United States.